Local Poets Podcasts

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." –Oscar Wilde

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2010 Local Poet Recordings

Cat Donnelly
“Diagnosis”
“Celestial Thoughts”
“A Prisoner of Thursday”
“In My Day We Had Good Girls and Bad Girls”
“Salvia in Autumn”
“Pulling Me Under”
“Victory Served Warm for Breakfast”
“Sweet Honeysuckle and White Lies”
Download (11:25 minutes, 10.4MB, MP3)

Carolyn Guinzio
“River of Feather & Web”
“Sky &”
“A History of Stone & Shadow”
Download (4.04 minutes, 3.72 MB, MP3)
Check our catalog for more poetry by Carolyn Guinzio

Davis McCombs
“Q&A”
“Lone”
“Eternal Rest”
Download (5:41 minutes, 5.21 MB, MP3)
Check library catalog for more poetry by Davis McCombs

Geoff Oelsner
“Winter Hymn at Tara”
“Birds Under the Roar”
“In Dingle”
“Yeat’s Lake Isle of Innisfree”
“Ozark Wild Rose”
“Kansas Browns”
Download (10:45 minutes, 9.89MB, MP3)
Check library catalog for more music and poetry by Geoff Oelsner

Bill Walker
“The Anchor Man”
“My Cat Bud”
“The Pavilion”
“Dear Dad”
“Truck Rust”
“The Daydream Fisherman”
“Ground Zero”
“Yellow Case Knife”
“So Low Down Blues”
“Friends for Life”
Download (10:10 minutes, 9.33MB, MP3)

2009 Local Poet Recordings

Mendy Knott
(8:13 minutes, 4.48 MB, MP3)
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Margot Lavoie
(10:01 minutes, 5.51 MB, MP3)
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Ginny Masullo
(3:41 minutes, 2.02 MB, MP3)
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Moshe Newmark
(13:55 minutes, 8 MB, MP3)
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Geoff Oelsner
(10:43 minutes, 6.35 MB, MP3)
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Clayton Scott
(8:11 minutes, 4.71 MB, MP3)
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Additional poetry websites:

Ozarks Poets & Writers Collective
http://ozarkwriters.wordpress.com

Poets.org, hosted by the Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/

Poetic History of Arkansas on Poets.org
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19469

Favorite Poem Project
http://www.favoritepoem.org/project.html

Bartleby.com, verse search
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/